Blog Against Theocracy update

tng | 2007-03-27 21:20

Blue Gal provides us with some more information about our upcoming Blog Against Theocracy scheduled for this Easter weekend, April 6-8. If you've been out of the loop, the idea is simple. Just write in support of church-state separation each day April 6-8. Blog Against Theocracy promises to be absolutely HUGE!

You'll want to read Blue Gal's full post but here are some topics that you might want to blog about during the blogswarm taken from First Freedom First's website. Really, the establishment clause touches on so many issues of importance to everyone in our country, not just liberals or atheists so these shouldn't be taken as a representative sampling:

No religious discrimination.
PRO End-of-Life Care (no more Terri Schiavo travesties)
Reproductive health decisions made by individuals, not religious "majorities"
Democracy not Theocracy
Academic Integrity (like, a rock is as old as it is, not as old as the Bible says)
Sound Science (good bye so-called "intelligent" design)
Respect for ALL families (based on love, not sexual orientation. Hellooooo.)
The right to worship, OR NOT.

FFF is a highly useful resource for establishment clause issues and I recommend everyone cruise on over there for a look.

Also, we've got another great piece of artwork (displayed on this post) for you to use on your blogs courtesy of Tengrain of Mock, Paper, Scissors. Way to go Tengrain! Thank you!

Blue Gal and I are coordinating on putting together a special blog for Blog Against Theocracy as a central clearinghouse for information on the event and to permanently host the giant linkfest we'll be doing. We'll be hammering out details as we go along, but the intention is to keep the structure of the blogswarm really loose. One recommendation that we'd like everyone to take part in though is to place a 'blog+against+theocracy' Technorati tag in your Blog Against Theocracy posts. This will help create an automatic index of all the Blog Against Theocracy posts.

If your blogging platform doesn't support Technorati tags, all you have to do is create a special link in your posts. You can use Technorati's how-to, or get the code here but your HTML will look something like this (note the + signs and rel="tag" in the Technorati link):

<span class="technoratitag">Technorati Tags:
a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/blog+against+theocracy"
target="_blank" rel="tag"
title="Find blog against theocracy posts on Technorati">blog against theocracy</a>
</span>

Which ends up displaying like this: